There is a VCS repo that has 2 branches - master and release. There are also 2 Debian packages that are built from these branches - let's say foo for the release branch and foo-master for the master ...

I know that apt update updates existing package-indexes on a supporting distro but not upgrading installed-packages (utilities) that were being installed based on these package-indexes (as apt upgrade ...

How do I install a newer, dev version of the network-manager version on Debian derived systems? It seems to I have to buy the "kitchen sink" of all unstable packages to get just one. I'm specifically ...

This works very well to export a WAV to MP3:
from pydub import AudioSegment
song = AudioSegment.from_wav("test.wav")
song.export("test.mp3", format="mp3", bitrate="256k")
but it requires to install ...

I am trying to install fontconfig-dbgsym under Ubuntu 18.04 inside Docker, running on Docker for Mac.
I use the following Dockerfile:
FROM ubuntu:18.04
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
RUN apt-get ...

Ok, so I have been trying to get this to work for a while and i don't know exactly what is going on so I will just show what happens:
aptitude install wine32
Note: selecting "wine32:i386" instead of ...

I tried to install a package with sudo apt-get install [package] but it froze during installation. I used sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq PACKAGE but now, when I want to install something ...

I was looking at Python2.7 for debian jessie since my goal was to downgrade Python 2.7.13 to 2.7.10 or lower (running on OSMC which is now on stretch). From its name it looked like that package was ...

I'm currently starting to play around in the Terminal (MacOS), and learning to get the most out of it. I knew Homebrew was a very populair alternative package-manager on MacOS, so I decided to look ...

i have a chroot debian os running on my rooted android phone, i recently tried installing InstaPy on it and ran into the following errors
root@localhost:/# cd InstaPy
root@localhost:/InstaPy# python3 ...

I'm trying to master how APT pinning works under Debian, but I'm having a hard time grasping how it resolves priorities.
I have a source.list file that has the following entries in this exact order:
...

On Ubuntu, when running sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade, why sometimes it asks me to restart my OS and sometimes not?
What do the packages that have that restart requirement have in common? Is it ...

I did 'apt-get dist upgrade' and upgraded it. It was done 100% but it asked me to open the upgraded packages so I did yes and I went out for a work for 1 hour. But after I came I saw that my pc was on ...

Pop!_OS advertises that they can install tensorflow onto any system using one command; sudo apt install tensorflow-cuda-latest.
I've had to install software from other repositories before. I did it ...

On Lubuntu 18.04, Software Updater notifies me there is update available from time to time. If I happen to have the time to, I will manually run sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade.
I am thinking about ...

Why is yum's tab completion slow while apt-get's tab completion is fast? I'm not sure but I believe that this may have to do with the fact that for autocomplete yum looks over the internet and apt-get ...

So I found a clever way to get Firefox to look at the system CA certificates. This involves replacing /usr/lib/firefox/libnssckbi.so with a symbolic link to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkcs11/p11-kit-...

I'm working on a Debian 6.0 server where I think the repo was wrong on the server.
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main
deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main
I compared a ...

If an application is available in multiple repositories added in either /etc/apt/sources.list or /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ or any other way, how does sudo apt install determine which repository to use?
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apt can automatically check if an installed program has update in the repository from which it was installed.
How can I find out which repository a given installed program was installed from?
Thanks....